FUTURE OF INDIA
Moslem Awir*‘’ons (7.30 p.m.) BOMBAY. Sept. 24. The secretary of the Moslem League, Nawabzada Liaqat Ali Khan, giving the first Moslem comment on the British plan, said that "Pakistan" was the only solution of India’s constitutional problem Congress proposals that the British hand over power Io the Central Government would mean dominance bv a vast Hindu majo"Pakistan" literally means "land of the pure.’' 'This idea was pul forward by Mr M. A Jinnah. leader of the Moslem l.ea'-'iie. In 1910. as the official objef live (ii Ihe Leaßiic. Ali Khan added ihul Ihe time might '•oine when a supreme sac-rifiru might be necessary In obtain Ihe freedom ol the Moslem nalion. He defined “ Pakistan” as within Hie provincial boundaries of the Punjab, the norlh-wes' frontier province. EtahichWan Sind Bengal, and also Assam. Within these areas free sovereign democratic states should be established.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLVIII, Issue 23315, 26 September 1945, Page 5
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